[cma-l] BBC Radio 5Live wants you to do phone ins for them - We're All in This Together

Tue Apr 26 18:46:11 BST 2011

First off the age old disclaimer - what follows is my own personal view 
not that of any organisation I am involved with.

I'm not sure there are that many Community Radio stations that do 'phone 
in' programmes? At least not phone ins in the traditional BBC local 
radio style.

Unless there is lots of cold hard cash up for grabs for the stations 
this seems like a lot of effort. Plus things such as "most off-topic 
caller" - sound like "have a laugh at Radio Smallville".

Looking at the fairly broad based topics listed I'm sure many Community 
Radio stations have already broadcast content touching these topics. I'd 
suggest that clips of regular Community Radio stations output, be that 
studio discussions, recorded interviews or whatever could be of interest 
to a wider audience.

For a 5live show to go to a sequence of "here's what the people of 
Smallville have been saying on Small FM on today's topic..." would make 
for both just as interesting listening, and for a small fee would be 
worthwhile for a Community Radio station to spend a little time 
collating clips of material already broadcast.

This would also promote the Community station well - as it will be 
highlighting what they normally broadcast - not a one off specially 
engineered phone-in just for 5Lives benefit.

Phil.

On 26/04/2011 11:18, jaqui devereux wrote:
> Dear all
>
> Please see below a request from 5 Live to ask you if you would be
> interetsed in running a phone in for their new Sunday morning show
> starting 9 May.  If you are interested in running one on any of the
> topics below please get back to us as soon as possible, or email Jo Meek
> and copy us in
>
> Thanks
>
> Jaqui
>
>
> Hi Jacqui,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to speak to me just now.
> Just to follow up on our chat - as you know the 9 week show we are
> producing is called ‘We’re All In This Together’.  The tone of the show
> is serious journalism - each week looking at a different theme such as
> healthcare reform and jobs and the economy - but with a lighter,
> humourous twist of reality, through pre-recorded material that’s about
> issues and themes directly relevant to the current state of our nation,
> and live guests to debate these issues.
>
> Our 9 ‘We’re All in This Together’ topics are:
>
>   Democratic Voice - do we have one in this country? Is it through protest?
>
>   Health
>
>   Police and crime
>
>   Job cuts and unemployment
>
>   Defence
>
>   Immigration
>
>   Education
>
>   Transport
>
>   Money and Banking
>
> *The Overview:*
> In the interests of cuts and austerity measures, 5 live’s We’re All In
> This Together is now outsourcing the show’s phone-in.  It means we don’t
> have to outlay for phone lines, operators or headsets and is all round a
> good efficiency saving for the licence fee payers.  (Quick reality
> check: we do have those things already, we just believe this is a fun
> and revelatory way of having a pre-recorded phone-in, a ‘vox populi’
> with a difference and with very different voices / opinions.  Each week,
> a community station runs a phone-in on the topic.  We then distill the
> on-air calls in a chart style rundown of ‘most insightful caller’,
> ‘biggest rant’ and ‘most off topic comment’.  It’s actually a way of
> hearing the opinions that otherwise wouldn’t be aired on national radio
> and a way of reflecting the diversity of voices via radio stations
> across the UK.
>
>
> *In terms of how we'd like to** run the phone as a pre-rec tape and
> script into like thi*s:
>
> We knew that the public felt strongly about this.  We knew it would make
> a great phone in for you this morning.  We also knew that in our busy
> schedule, we wouldn’t have time to get you all on air with your views on
> lying politicians.  That could have taken most of the day.  So in the
> spirit of the times, we contracted our phone-in out on a cost-effective
> basis.  It was done by X RADIO STATION in X TOWN.
>
> Here’s how they set it up.
>
> TAPE OF HOST SETTING UP THE QUESTION:
>
> Here’s the best caller
>
> TAPE
>
> Here’s the angriest caller
>
> TAPE
>
> And here’s the most irrelevant caller
>
>
> Hope this makes sense - please let me know your thoughts and if we can
> work with several community stations on these that would be great.
>
> I know time is a little against us - but we'd need to hear back from the
> stations who are interested
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Jo
>
> Jo Meek
> Radio Producer
> *
> *
> *email>> jo.meek at me.com <mailto:jo.meek at me.com>*
> *skype & twitter>> @*jomeek
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jaqui Devereux
> Director, Community Media Association
> 0114 279 5219
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